Antagonism Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct…

— Morris Graves

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

— Emily Carr

The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral....

— Jorge Luis Borges

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

— Toni Morrison

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

— e. e. cummings

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

— Anonymous

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

— Nikki Giovanni

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

— Anne Lamott

We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our…

— Terry Tempest Williams

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse…

— Maya Angelou

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

— Georges Vantongerloo